On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 05:02:49AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
Say, often a developer upgrades a group of related packages, but they
don't hit the mirrors at the same time. This causes apt-get
dselect-upgrade and dist-upgrade to remove the older parts instead of
holding back for
Say, often a developer upgrades a group of related packages, but they
don't hit the mirrors at the same time. This causes apt-get
dselect-upgrade and dist-upgrade to remove the older parts instead of
holding back for the newer parts. One must use apt-get upgrade for the
many days the condition
I.e., here we see apt gets it right for php5, but not for gimp:
# apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dist-upgrade
Investigating php5
Package php5 has broken dep on libapache2-mod-php5
Package php5 has broken dep on libapache2-mod-php5filter
Package php5 has broken dep on php5-cgi
Or group
AP apt-get dist-upgrade is not meant to be run on a daily basis on sid, but
AP only as needed and for when you actually look at the output to make sure
AP it doesn't remove something you actually want. Second of all, real men
AP use aptitude, which handles these kinds of dependencies in a smarter
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 06:07:46AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used to use aptitude, and even dselect, but I found one needed to
use their full screen modes to use them to their full extent, which
was too exciting for me, so retreated to the simpler apt-get
dselect-upgrade to stay on
TF aptitude safe-upgrade
TF aptitude dist-upgrade
OK works good and I am sold.
Maybe I can even use aptitude to solve my other posting today
how to keep the latest linux-doc package installed?
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